Bedbug protection at home

Bed bugs there are millennia, amazing survivability, and the ways of adapting these bloodsucking to adverse living conditions amaze everyone who has ever encountered this phenomenon. The insect eats only blood and propagatedif the female bug has access to human or animal blood. In the absence of a food source, it falls into a state of suspended animation and for more than one year remains viable without visible signs of life. When it enters a favorable environment, it instantly comes to life and restores all its functions. Prevention of bed bugs in an apartment will help to avoid an unpleasant “neighborhood”.

Parasite features

Since the main food is human blood, bugs try to settle next to the place closest to their source of life. Usually detect nests it is possible in upholstered furniture, books, in beds under mattresses, in parquet slots, behind plinths, on the back walls of furniture, behind carpets and even in electronic equipment.

Bed bugs are night hunters, so during the day they are very difficult to find in the apartment. They behave very actively from two to five in the morning, as a person cannot defend himself during sleep. Very rarely can a victim feel bug bite: during the puncture of the skin with its proboscis, the insect injects a substance that does not allow blood to clot and has an analgesic effect.

Important!

During the day, one female bug can lay up to five eggs.

Over the entire period of her life, a female is able to postpone about 500 eggs. It is enough for a bloodsucker to eat blood once every 5-7 days. Insects are very sensitive to environmental conditions:

• the optimal temperature for their existence should be in the range of 18-25 degrees;
• at very high and very low air temperatures they die.

Bed migration routes

It is almost impossible to protect yourself from the invasion of uninvited guests. And not because the house or apartment is not kept in perfect order - it does not matter at all. Bedbugs are not bred in dirty rooms, although it is easier for them to find a nook there, but they come after people to their housing in various ways:

• through apartment communications;
• move from neighbors;
• in things and bags that have been in places infected with parasites;
• through old furniture or bedding;
• on pet hair.

Ways to control insects

Now it becomes clear that it is difficult to protect oneself from bedbugs, but it is still worth trying to do it. Insects can only bite at night. You need to be able to protect yourself, so for some time you can get up between two in the morning and five in the morning, turn on the light in the apartment and inspect the bed to understand: mosquitoes or bedbugs bite.

A specific aroma similar to the smell of sour raspberries, shells after molting and the accumulation of black dots on furniture, linen or under wallpaper are obvious signs of bugs. If these parasites are found in the house, then the question of how to protect yourself from bedbugs becomes especially relevant.

In Moscow and other large cities, there are special services that deal with the issues of prevention and pest control. They will offer way to handle housing depending on the degree of infection. Only necessary in advance prepare the premises for the work of pest control: pack toys and utensils, remove food, and most importantly, do not stay in the apartment after disinfection for a day or several hours. During this time, all chemicals will have time to weather.

Feedback

Why are bedbugs wound up at a friend’s country house, it remained a mystery, because the house was empty for a long time. She found on the Internet the address of the nearest SES and asked for pest control and prevention. The service arrived quickly. They did the treatment for about an hour. Bedbugs disappeared and did not appear again. Still, you need to trust this business to professionals.

Tatyana, Moscow

Protection against bedbugs at home and prevention can be carried out on their own. In this case, you need to be patient and get some information about modern insecticides and the rules for their use in the apartment. They will be quite effective if you strictly follow the instructions. All of these products should have a contact effect and hold for a long time on the surfaces that have been processed.

Such modern substances include:

• powdered dusts;
• spraying agents;
  

  

• gels and pastes;
• insecticidal crayons, pencils;
• microencapsulated preparations with the effect of a containment barrier.

It is only necessary to remember that during the work with insecticidal preparations it is necessary to apply protective equipment: masks, gloves, special clothes.

Feedback

Bedbugs appeared in the apartment. Noticed at night on the handle of a child. The next day, we went to the nearest household chemistry store and asked what can be taken to bring out bugs. True, they did not say that this is with us. Somehow it was a shame. The seller advised to take Clean House: easy to handle and the effect is good. Sprinkled in the apartment wherever they could. They left for a few days in the village to certainly etch these parasites. After returning, they carried out cleaning and maintenance as indicated in the instructions. More bugs are not yet visible, I hope that we said goodbye to them forever.

Olga, Bryansk

Preventive measures

After a successful struggle, the prevention of the appearance of unexpected "guests" is urgently needed, because if there are bloodsucker eggs left somewhere, then they will appear again in the apartment. For this purpose, you can call professionals, but self-prevention from bedbugs is always possible.

There are three types of it:

• folk remedies, so as not to destroy, but scare away insects;
• effective insecticides to kill bugs;
• bug traps (can be made independently).

In order to permanently get rid of the problem, you need to make a quality repair, since protection from bedbugs at home and prevention largely depend on how reliably the migration routes are blocked for these blood-feeding lovers. If repair work is not possible, then all the cracks in the windows, doors, walls, skirtings and floors must be repaired. Change sockets, close all ventilation ducts with a fine mesh.

Feedback

After complete disinsection and prevention of the apartment from bugs that bred so quickly that we did not even have time to understand how and why this happened, I, on the advice of experienced people, closed up all the cracks in the windows and walls. Changed the old flooring to the laminate. Bedbugs did not appear again.

Nikolay, Cheboksary

Each apartment owner can protect furniture from bedbugs by treating it with insecticidal agents. It is necessary to eliminate all the breakdowns in it and patch the holes so that the insects could not hide there. Do not bring someone else's furniture from the street into the house.

You can protect yourself from bug bites using traps.The legs of the bed need to be placed in the center of the adhesive tape and if the insect wants to reach you, it will stick to the adhesive base. Can also be used ointments for bitesmade from plants. Odorous herbs that parasites do not like will help protect themselves. These include:

• tansy;
• sagebrush;
• valerian;
• rosemary;
• celandine;
• chamomile.

Careful prevention of bed bugs in the apartment will make life more comfortable, and a quiet night's sleep will maintain health for many years.